Butec OTM: The New Pain Relief For Sheep And Cattle
Animal welfare just got easier. Troy has made Butec OTM – the long-lasting pain relief product for sheep and cattle – available in our stores. It’s a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) used to alleviate pain from husbandry procedures in sheep and cattle, such as castration, tail docking, and mulesing. What is it? Butec OTM is a […]
Fed Up With Snails And Slugs Eating Your Crop? Imtrade’s Metakill May Be The Solution.
Over the years, agriculture has progressively moved to more conservative farming practices, such as no-till, less burning and less tillage. While this has improved soil structure and erosion, it has also created ideal habitats for snails and slugs. We have better soils, but we pay the price of these pests becoming more of a problem […]
Plant SAP Analysis – A Powerful New Management Tool To Maximise Crop Nutrition.
Plant SAP analysis is fast becoming a powerful management tool for monitoring crop nutrition and maximising yields. What is it, and how is it different? Plant SAP testing can provide more dynamic crop data than what can be gained through soil testing or plant tissue testing alone. The biggest difference between SAP analysis and tissue […]
Nufarm’s New Galaxy: A Flexible Post Em Option For Powerful Weed Control
A flexible alternative for powerful control of challenging weeds. Galaxy from Nufarm is a new post-emergent herbicide option for broadleaf weeds in cereal crops. Its active is straight Pyrasulfotole – (which you might recognise as one part of Bayer’s Velocity and Precept). It is a Group 27 (H) herbicide with excellent activity on problem weeds, […]
Mouse Activity Update 2023
GRDC have released their mouse monitoring update, which lists our areas as low to moderate. However, keep in mind numbers were still breeding up in April. Click here to check it out. At this stage, although numbers are low to moderate, given the good yields last year, lots of ground cover, and plenty to keep […]
Blackspot Disease Forecast 2023
SARDI Crop Watch has released its Blackspot disease forecast with an indication towards a ‘highly variable risk’ of blackspot disease of seedling field peas that are sown from late in April through to early May across SA. Some of our areas are considered to be at a higher risk, and some are considered low. Do […]
Mateno Complete: Bayer’s New Weapon In The War Against Ryegrass
Annual ryegrass is one of the biggest frustrations for our winter cereal crops, wouldn’t you agree? If you’re like most farmers, a big part of your ryegrass herbicide tool kit has been Sakura. And in the fight against resistance, we need to keep adding new weapons. Now, you can use Bayer’s new, more powerful, more […]
StayDry Pre Drop: Increase Survival And Growth In Lambs
Nothing is more disappointing than checking the mob and seeing lost newborn lambs. Not only is it a shame to see the loss of life, but it’s a direct hit to your potential profits. Research indicates the average loss of lambs in pastoral flocks between scanning and marking is about 30%. At birth, poor birth […]
New: Combat Barley
A barley variety with high yields and an excellent disease package? Yep, Combat can. New Combat barley is being marketed as an alternative to Rosalind, with its yields in the 2022 National Variety Trials (NVT) coming in above the benchmark variety at most of the local trial sites at Salter Springs, Spalding, Bute, and Turretfield. […]
Optimum GLY Canola Is Finally Here
The Corteva and Pioneer canola research teams in Australia have been working for more than a decade, and finally, in February, we saw a global announcement by Corteva Agriscience that we would see the commercial launch of Optimum GLY trait technology for canola in Australia. Optimum GLY is an advanced herbicide-tolerant trait technology. It will […]
